CITIZENS & GOVERNMENT
The study of government, citizenship, and people’s rights and responsibilities.
What is civics?
The movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
An official count of the people living in a country or area.
What is the census?
A person who is born in the United States can generally become a citizen through what?
Birth / being native-born.
The government wants to know how many people live in each state. What information source should it use?
The census
A legal member of a country who has certain rights and responsibilities.
What is a citizen?
A family moves from Jacksonville to Miami. What term describes this movement?
What is migration?
Information about the characteristics of a population, such as age, income, birthplace, or gender.
What is demographic information?
A person who becomes a U.S. citizen after being born in another country goes through this legal process.
What is naturalization?
A city wants to know the ages, incomes, and birthplaces of its residents. What type of information is it studying?
Demographic information.
The system used to make and enforce rules and provide services for a society.
What is government?
People who move to another country to live there are called what?
Who are immigrants?
The number of births in a population during a specific period of time.
What is the birth rate?
A person who is a citizen because they were born in the country can be described using what term?
What is native-born?
More people are being born in a community than are dying. Which rate is likely helping the population grow?
The birth rate.
A person moves to the United States from another country to live there permanently. What are they called?
What is an immigrant?
A person is forced to leave their country because of war or persecution and seeks safety in another country.
What is a refugee?
The number of deaths in a population during a specific period of time.
What is the death rate?
This process allows an eligible immigrant to become a U.S. citizen.
What is naturalization?
A family escapes a dangerous country because of war and seeks safety in the United States. Which vocabulary term best describes the family?
Refugee
Explain the difference between a citizen and an immigrant.
A citizen is a legal member of the country with citizenship rights and responsibilities. An immigrant is someone who moves to another country to live there and may or may not become a citizen.
A family voluntarily moves to another country looking for better opportunities. Another family leaves its country because a war makes it unsafe. What are the two important vocabulary terms?
Immigrant and refugee
A city has a high birth rate and a low death rate. What would you expect to happen to its population?
The population would likely grow, because more people are being born than dying.
Maria was born in Mexico and later completed the legal process to become a U.S. citizen. Is Maria native-born or naturalized?
Naturalized
Explain how these four terms can be connected:
Migration → Immigrant → Naturalization → Citizen
A person may migrate from one country to another and become an immigrant. If they meet the requirements and complete naturalization, they can become a citizen.